David Letterman catches John McCain in lame excuse
Posted on September 25th, 2008 by admin2Well we all sometimes need to be a bit creative to get out of a social commitment gracefully without hurting the inviter’s’ feeling. Unfortunately when your a presidential candidate and you get caught red handed in a lame excuse it’s perhaps a bit embarrassing?
So about 90 minutes before the David Letterman show taping was to begin, scheduled guest John McCain’s people phoned to say he was suspending his campaign because of the financial crisis and racing to the airport to get back to Washington DC, so had to scrub Dave’s show. Supposedly the senator himself called Letterman to explain, “I have to go back and fix the economy. I’m going to get on a plane now and go.”
The show scrambled to get a replacement guest and at the last minute booked Keith Olbermann. When it was time for tonight’s taping, Letterman explained to the cameras why McCain was a no-show and even had nice things to say about him. That is, until the behind the scenes people in The Late Show control room were shocked to see a live feed of McCain being miked in Katie Couric’s CBS News studio at the same time he was supposed to be in Dave’s studio. Letterman was informed of this during the commercial break, and, when the show came back, ordered the control room to cut to the live McCain/Couric feed. Then Letterman asked the audience: “He doesn’t seem to be racing back to the airport, does he?”
Check out the 9-minute YouTube footage (below):
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